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Inspection template in the LeanSuite app

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Slips, trips and falls inspection checklist

A slips, trips and falls inspection is a weekly walk of one area looking at floors, walkways, stairs and entrances, and at the housekeeping and footwear that decide whether people stay on their feet. All 13 questions are things you can see on the walk, so a supervisor can run it during a normal round and fix most findings in the same shift.

Most of what it finds is small and quick to fix: coolant tracked across the aisle from a leaking machine, an air hose laid over a walkway, a curled mat edge at a door, a stair nosing worn smooth, or a dark corner where a light failed. Left for a week, each of those is a fall waiting for the wrong moment. Log the fix with a photo so the next walk can confirm it held.

What it is for, as built: Weekly walk-through for slip, trip and fall hazards in an area.

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The full question list

The 13 questions in the inspection

Every question is answered Yes, No or N/A. Each No is flagged and asks for a photo and a comment, so the finding arrives with its evidence.

Floors

  1. 1Floors are dry and free of spills
  2. 2Spills are cleaned up straight away
  3. 3Floor surfaces are in good repair
  4. 4Drains are clear

Walkways

  1. 5Walkways are clear and marked
  2. 6Cables and hoses do not cross walkways
  3. 7Lighting is enough to see hazards

Stairs, ramps and entrances

  1. 8Handrails are secure
  2. 9Steps and treads are in good condition and slip-resistant
  3. 10Entrance mats are in place and flat

Housekeeping and footwear

  1. 11Waste and packaging are not left on the floor
  2. 12Stored items are off the floor and out of walkways
  3. 13People wear suitable footwear for the area

Worked example, illustrative

A filled-in example

One section as it might be filled in on the floor, with every other section of the inspection answered Yes. The place and finding are made up to show how the inspection reads and scores.

Result: fail, 84.6% against a pass mark of 90

  • 13 questions, all of them count.
  • 2 answered No, so 11 of 13 are Yes: 11 ÷ 13 = 84.6%.
  • 84.6% is under 90, so the inspection fails.

What happened next: Hose rerouted overhead by the team lead that shift. Maintenance replaced the light fitting within two days.

Scored here as one point per question with N/A left out. In the app each answer carries the points set on the template, so change them after you clone it if your plant weighs some checks more.

Slips, Trips and Falls Inspection

Inspection, weekly

Area
Line 2 and the aisle to the stores

Walkways

  1. Walkways are clear and markedYes
  2. Cables and hoses do not cross walkwaysNo
  3. Lighting is enough to see hazardsNo

    Comment: An air hose runs across the aisle to the stores from the drop at Line 2. The light over the corner by the stores door has failed.

    Photo attached to each No

Drawn from this template's own questions, not a screenshot of the app. Illustrative answers.

When to use it

  • Once a week.
  • The person responsible for the area or equipment answers each question on the spot.
  • Each record starts with: Area.

How it is scored

The template is built with points per answer and a pass mark of 90. In this library every audit is set to pass at 80 and every inspection at 90. Each submitted inspection shows its score and pass or fail, and every No is flagged with its photo and comment.

Change the points or the pass mark after you clone it. How rules and scoring work.

Read and print

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FAQ

Slips, trips and falls inspection checklist: common questions

  1. Weekly for each area, done during a normal supervisor round so most findings are fixed in the same shift. Walk it more often in wet weather at the entrances, after a machine starts leaking coolant or oil, after a layout change or a new line moves in, and in the days after a slip or near miss has been reported there.

  2. The area supervisor or team lead walks it, because they can fix most of it on the spot: a hose moved, a spill wiped, a pallet pulled out of an aisle. They need the area's walkway plan and the footwear rule. Items they cannot fix, like a worn stair nosing or a failed light, go to the maintenance lead or EHS lead with a date.

  3. A fail means someone could go down before the next walk: a wet floor with no sign, a hose across a walkway, a loose handrail or a dark corner. Fix what you can now and put a cone or a barrier on what you cannot. Anything structural, like a broken step or a sunken floor plate, goes to maintenance as a dated job that same day. In this template every No is flagged and asks for a photo and a comment, and an inspection that scores under its pass mark of 90 is a fail.

  4. Keep the area, date, each finding and a photo of it, plus a photo of the fix so the next walk can confirm it held. Keep the work order for anything maintenance had to do. Over months the repeat items, such as the same leaking machine or the same door mat, point at the root cause instead of the symptom. In LeanSuite each submitted inspection is stored with its score, its pass or fail, and the photo and comment on every No.

  5. 13 questions in 4 sections: floors, walkways, stairs, ramps and entrances, and housekeeping and footwear. Every question is answered Yes, No or N/A.

Use this template in LeanSuite

It is ready in the Template Marketplace inside Lean Creator as “Slips, Trips and Falls Inspection”. Clone it into your plant, change any question, then schedule it to a person, role or asset with reminders. Auditors complete it on a phone or tablet, with photo evidence where required.

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